Door-hanger



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A. L. SWETT & W. HQSAMSON;

DOOR HANGER. i I v No. 254,245. Patented Feb-28.1882.-

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ALBERT L. SWVETT AND WILLIAM H. SAMSON, OF MEDINA, NEW YORK.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,245, dated February 28, 1882. Applicationfiled July 11, 1881. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that We,A LBERT L. SwET'r and VILLIAM H. SAMSON, of Medina, in the ounty of Orleans, in the State of New York,

' We invented new and useful Improvements Door-Hangers, of which thefollowing, taken connection with the accompanying. drawgs, is a full, clear, and exact description. [his invention relates to improved means carrying and guiding a suspended sliding I cor; and it consists, first, in a peculiar conruction of the carrying-roller of the door- :anger, whereby the tread of said roller is en .irged in breadth to better sustain the doorlatjrally without materially inoreasin g the weight f the roller, and which also prevents, to a reat extent, the clogging of the roller by snow id ice on the track-rail from which the door suspended.

The invention also consists in a novel man *er and means of securing to the door the rollr which usually bears on the rear face of a 'uicle-rail and guides the door in its move- .ient, all as hereinafter fully described. 7 In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front flft'iew of our invention; Fig. 2, a rear view of the same; Fig. 3, a section on line at x Fig. 4, a plan view; and Fig. illustrates modifications in the details of the attachment of the guide-roller.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A denotes the hanger or door-suspending arm secured to the upper part of the door, and 5 It is the carrying roller or wheel pivoted to the arm A, and traveling on a plain track-rail, G, secured stationary above the door. The roller or wheel R we provide with two-treads, a a, of equal diameter, and an intermediate circum- 0 ferential recess, a, which latter separates the aforesaid treads, and is of a proper size to increase the breadth of the wheel, so asto effectually sustain the same laterally without materially increasing the weight of the wheel. The 5 intervening recess, 4, also allows any snow or ice which may be on the track to escape from under the two treads a a. in the approach of the wheel, and thus serves to preventtheclogging of said wheel to a great extent.

0 denotes the guide-roller, designed to guide and steady the'door in its movement. Said .roller is usually made to travelin alongitudinal recess, '1), in the under side of the track-rail, and has heretofore been pivoted either on an arm extended from the hanger-strap or on a separate strap secured to the rear face of the door. In either case the upper end of the spindle of the roller was unsupported laterally, and therefore liable to become bentor broken. Furthermore, the aforesaid connection of the roller with the hanger-strap rendered the latter difficult to mold and cast, and thus increased the cost of the manufacture of the same. The employment of the extra strap on the back of the door is also objectionable, in that its attachment defaces the rear or-inner face of the door, and by its projection from said face frequently presents an obstruction which, in moving the door, comes in contact with the wall or side of the building, and either mars the same or completely stops the movement of the door.

To obviate the aforesaid defects, we pivot the roller 0 on top of the door by means of a pin, 6, which passes vertically into the top of the door, and has its upper end sustained by a plate, 01, which is applied across the top of the roller 0, and secured to the door by bolts b b, passing vertically into the top of the door.

The plate d may be either straight, and supported over the roller by extensions u of the top of the door, at opposite sides of the roller,

as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, or made with vertical offsets 0 o, and horizontal extensions m from said offsets, resting on the top of the door and secured by screws 1; b, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. The pin e may be also sustained by a plate secured to the top of the door, and extended across the under side of the roller, as shown by dotted lines in Fig.

'5 of the drawings.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

b I), passing vertically through the ends of said plate and into the top of the door, and the in the county of Orleans, in the State of New York, this 8th day of July, 1881.

pivotal pin a, inserted through theplate d and ALBERT LOUIS SWETT L g into the top of the door, substantially as de- 5 scribed and Show WILLIAM H. SAMSON. [L. s]

In testimony whereof we have hereunto YVit-nesses: signed our names and atfixed our seals,in the MYRON S. NEWELL, presence of two attesting witnesses,at Medina, WM. L. CARPENTER.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 254,245, granted February 28, 1882, to Albert L. Swett and \Villiain H. Sampson, of Medina, New York, for an improvement in Door-Hangers, the word hanger was inadvertently omitted after the word door, in line 94, on page 1 of the printed specification attached to and forming a part of said Letters Patent; that the proper corrections have been made in the files and records pertaining to the case in the Patent Oflice, and are hereby made in said Letters Patent.

Signed, eountersigned and sealed this 14th day of March, A. D. 1882.

A. BELL, Acting Secretary 15/ the Interior.

[SEAL] Gountersigned E. M. MARBLE,

Commissioner of Patents. 

